| English Standard Version | New International Version |
| 1Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; | 1Of David. Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. |
| 2he is my steadfast love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. | 2He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me. |
| 3O LORD, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? | 3LORD, what are human beings that you care for them, mere mortals that you think of them? |
| 4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. | 4They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow. |
| 5Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down! Touch the mountains so that they smoke! | 5Part your heavens, LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, so that they smoke. |
| 6Flash forth the lightning and scatter them; send out your arrows and rout them! | 6Send forth lightning and scatter the enemy; shoot your arrows and rout them. |
| 7Stretch out your hand from on high; rescue me and deliver me from the many waters, from the hand of foreigners, | 7Reach down your hand from on high; deliver me and rescue me from the mighty waters, from the hands of foreigners |
| 8whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. | 8whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. |
| 9I will sing a new song to you, O God; upon a ten-stringed harp I will play to you, | 9I will sing a new song to you, my God; on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you, |
| 10who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword. | 10to the One who gives victory to kings, who delivers his servant David. From the deadly sword |
| 11Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. | 11deliver me; rescue me from the hands of foreigners whose mouths are full of lies, whose right hands are deceitful. |
| 12May our sons in their youth be like plants full grown, our daughters like corner pillars cut for the structure of a palace; | 12Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace. |
| 13may our granaries be full, providing all kinds of produce; may our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields; | 13Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields; |
| 14may our cattle be heavy with young, suffering no mishap or failure in bearing; may there be no cry of distress in our streets! | 14our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets. |
| 15Blessed are the people to whom such blessings fall! Blessed are the people whose God is the LORD! | 15Blessed is the people of whom this is true; blessed is the people whose God is the LORD. |
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